Mountain State University CRNA/SRNAs

You will graduate with an MSN which means as an advance nurse degree, you are not limited to which state you practice in.

Master's degree or higher in a nursing specialty[/b] and national specialty certification as a nurse practitioner, nurse anesthetist, nurse midwife, or clinical nurse specialist." (bold face per AANA).....
Info obtained from AANA website :State Legislative and Regulatory Requirement

I'm in the second CRNA class at MSU, called co-hort 2. The first class doesn't graduate until next year. Because this program is the only one in the country its hard to compare it to anything else, although other schools have expressed an interest and our director has provided assistance to those schools. Don't know who they are though.
My impression: there is a lot of critism that this is web based and you can't learn anesthesia on the web. Entirely correct. It is not web based. It is distance learning. The successful student is one with strong critical care skills, strong science background, is self motivated and has critical thinking skills. No one holds your hand to tell you what chapters to read. If the topic is regional anesthesia, you are expected to use your resources to learn all you can about that topic.
The director is highly respected in the field. He's on a first name basis with the authors of my anesthesia text books, he's even written some of the chapters.
The premise is you purhase a lap top (Dell) along with all the text books. This lap top is your life. No one else in my family is allowed to touch it.
Each time you come to campus, every 3 weeks, you have lab time and take your exams. The lectures are on a disc that you are provided with each time and you are tested on those subjects while on campus. Lab time is spent with Sim Man (computer generated pt with monitors, anesthesia machine etc that can give you scenerios) or learning how to provide regionals; practicing on the mannequin to insert a spinal or epidural or airway mangement. We do everything in the lab before we go into the OR. We may not be proficeint but at least if the preceptor asks us about MAC or what induction agents we want to use, we should be able to answer somewhat coherantly.

Advantage: you can still have a life, at least somewhat. If you need to take the kids to school or soccer, you can do that as long as you are able to time manage to keep up with your studies. Organizational skills and flexibilty is really key.
Another advantage: You will graduate with an MSN which means as an advance nurse degree, you are not limited to which state you practice in.

If you already have an MSN such as a practicing clinical FNP, there are those classes (thesis, Health assessment) you won't need to take.

Hope this helps.